CATWS OVERINVESTED COMMENTARY I NO LIKE

I'm so disappointed in Overinvested's Captain America Winter Soldier commentary. I'd been looking forward to it for weeks.

You have to talk about a movie to be a commentary. SO MUCH dead air.

No analysis, just vapid comments on the scenes or actors or fangirling reactions.

Look I'm not into the MCU at the moment anymore either, and have also only enjoyed Black Panther and the style of Thor Ragnarok, but you can tell you are scathing against the universe's development and the way it has gone and just bringing it into a movie you supposedly love instead of talking about why you love or loved the movie, and it is not a good time. It's not even valid critique of now vs then either because you never elaborate on your points.


And the bit about disliking Zola and Hydra, which was the one minor real discussion of the film's plot... shows a real misunderstanding of the role of the villain in this movie imo. Hydra are meant to represent current day government, or the fascist Nazi ideals in First Avenger, without actually having to say it to the audience, because that would break the immersion of the superhero fantasy genre if a superhero actually was at war with a very real historical or current collective us. It's all about subtext.

Making it entirely Shield or just regular governance in the MCU ruins the evil lurking within of the spy narrative, and the symbolism of watch out for old foes, clever disguises, and becoming your enemy.  

The algorithm is very current considering the role of government oversight and analytics online in our first world society. No, we in RL aren't using it to target people for attack. Our own people. Yet. But we are collected and grouped and watched. Currently gaslit to think that we are one wrong tweet away from being branded the enemy.

Ugh to the Bucky fangirling.

No, the movie doesn't need more Bucky or Seb. This movie is about Captain America and Steve's character, and therefore his POV. Be invested in his emotional stakes and journey independent of fandom! Bucky would be a mystery and painful ghost on the edge of Steve's view. As a thriller, the Winter Soldier needs to be nebulous to be threatening. That's what makes the reveals and emotions work.

I had such high hopes for this commentary because I loved the takedown on Captain America Civil War and thought you got the heart of this movie. I was hoping for a beloved insight that was a needed reminder that the MCU franchise once had depth. That you can find Captain America's role in the superhero zeitgeist of Marvel and in this film and give it meaning. That you can cherish the character's in the Cap trilogy and cherish Stucky as a really interesting and deep take on friendship and potential queerness in the MCU and take it seriously, where other commentaries and reviews brush all aside to straight praise Marvel or absolutely not consider any of these things as having depth at all.

This was a superficial gaze brought to this commentary and that wrecked me.